What are the most common roommate conflicts?
One of the biggest problems that I have run across through the years, is overnight guests. This sounds so innocent and innocuous, but if you have a roommate that has a boyfriend, for instance, and he decides to spend the night, then all of the sudden it is two nights, then all of a sudden it becomes four nights, and then eventually he’s there every day. He’s not paying rent, he’s not paying utility, he’s eating your food, he’s using the paper towels and the toilet paper, and the water, and he’s taking a shower. Major resentment builds up with the other roommate, because he’s there all the time. They’ve lost their right of privacy, and maybe they hate him – that has happened before. You need to be very careful about the rules that you set up. If it’s four guys living together, for instance, and they each have a girlfriend, that could be a case of the more the merrier, or it could be a major disaster. You need to talk about these things. You need to be specific from the very beginning be
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